I was watching a few Sex MachineGuns youtube videos on my second PC when my whole room blacked out. I thought there was a power trip somewhere in the house but when I opened the door to my living room, the lights were on and everything was normal.
After some troubleshooting, I found out that the cause was my main PC and it refused to boot up after. I panicked a little. I was afraid of losing the data on my RAID harddisks if the motherboard was dead.
Next day, Singtel’s line-fault technician came to my house to check the lines. Everything seemed fine with him. He trimmed the wires for me and tidied up the wires outside my house a little. The problem didn’t go away still.
When he left, I rushed down to Corbell’s office at AMK techplace to get my Antec PSU replaced.
Since they don’t have anymore PSUs of my model, I was offered a choice to upgrade to their newer models with an extra $30. But the 3 year warranty will continue from when I bought my previous PSU. I have 2 months left. >_>
Went home, installed it, my PC booted up with no problems and everything was intact. *phew*
Later that day, I went to meet a friend at SimLim Square to buy my digital camera. A Canon Ixus 800 IS. SGD$629, free digital camera kit (mini tripod, some cleaning stuff, a bag), free 512MB SD card and a 1GB SD card, free case. And the best surprise freebie: a calculator.
That was when things start to get worse.
I had my PSP with me. I carried it in my waistpouch together with my earphones. At one point while waiting for the bus, I was leaning against a wall on the waistpouch when I felt a little crack sound. Checking my PSP, I found this….
Sucks… ( T-T)
Update:
I’ve sent in my PSP to Sony for repairs. It costs $178.50 to replace the LCD and a few parts. A brand new PSP costs around $330 but I don’t want to have 2 PSPs at home. 1 for playing, 1 for smashing cockroaches.
A firmware upgrade is a must. They will be upgrading the firmware to 2.82 for me. Sucks because I can’t play homebrew. I’ll have to hope someone manages to come up with an easy way to downgrade the firmware.
Another user offered me $120 to replace my LCD using parts from his PSP which he bricked. I think it was a good offer but it came too late as I’ve already sent it in and said to go ahead with the repairs.
burn
awwww…
why must they upgrade! time to source around for downgrading guide
yea, I was asking the guy at the service counter if I can request for it not to be upgraded. But he say it’s a must. Company policy, and that the technician will need to test it, and to prevent customer piracy. sigh
by the way, you using geoip service (or sorta) to determine the location of the commenter?
Yup, they provided their database in .csv format for you to download. The file quite huge.
die!
Ugh, my heart sank when I saw that picture T.T
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sigh, but then I think you can easily downgrade the firmware again as your hardware supports it. Just a matter of time :/
yea, matter of time. *prays very hard for 2.82 downgrader* ( T-T)